LinkedIn’s California layoffs affected workers at its offices in San Francisco, Mountain View, Carpinteria and Sunnyvale. More than half of those cuts hit its workforce in Mountain View.

The LinkedIn layoffs follow job cuts earlier this month at the job-seeking platform’s parent company, Microsoft. Earlier this month, Microsoft laid off 86 employees across several Bay Area offices.

According to California's Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) list, where companies list planned layoffs, Microsoft fired 281 LinkedIn staff on May 28. Microsoft paid $26.2 ...

Microsoft is cutting less than 3% of its global workforce, including at LinkedIn. The company employed an estimated 228,000 workers as of last June, meaning the layoffs will affect approximately ...

Challenger, Gray & Christmas reported that U.S. employers cut more than 275,000 jobs in March, with more than 216,000 of those layoffs coming in the federal government, spearheaded by Elon Musk ...

LinkedIn notified its employees about the layoffs on May 13. Workers posted about their pink slips on the social network, letting hiring managers and recruiters know that they were open to work.

Without products to sell in stores, retail employers (responsible for 10% of all jobs in the U.S.) will shed employees, a cascade of negatives now showing up in both statistics and "for lease" signs.